Obama - The Next Leader of the United States of America?

Received in an email passed on by a friend.

Most of this factual information has already been posted in my previous blogs.

Spoken words have little value. Past history should be most helpful in making major decisions. The only change I would make that Obama originally stated that if he were president, he would have the troops out of Iraq in 16 months.

That timeline has already passed. Now he is saying 16 months after he is elected.

My Grandson, Bill Greytak, Jr., is just back from Baghdad where he witnessed much progress. He says reenlistment's are at record highs and it is his opinion that most troops in the MidEast will vote for McCain.

Merle


Barack Hussein Obama,

The New York Times carried a story on Saturday, October 4, 2008 that proved you had a significantly closer relationship with Bill Ayers than what you previously admitted. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.

The Chicago Sun reported on May 8, 2008 that FBI records showed that you had a significantly closer relationship with Tony Rezko than what you previously admitted. In the interview, you said that you only saw Mr. Rezko a couple of times a year. The FBI files showed that you saw him weekly. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.

Your speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008 about "race" contradicted your statement to Anderson Cooper on March 14 when you said that you never heard Reverend Wright make his negative statements about white America. While your attendance at Trinity Church for 20 years is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on March 14.


In your 1st debate with John McCain, you said that you never said that you would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea without "preparations" at lower levels ... Joe Biden repeated your words in his debate with Sarah Palin ... while the video tape from your debate last February clearly shows that you answered "I would" to the question of meeting with those leaders within 12 months without "any" preconditions. While your judgement about meeting with enemies of the USA without pre-conditions is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America in the debate with McCain.

On July 14, 2008, you said that you always knew that the surge would work while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you stated that the surge would not work. While your judgement about military strategy as a potential commander in chief is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on July 14.

You now claim that your reason for voting against funding for the troops was because the bill did not include a time line for withdrawal while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you voted against additional funding because you wanted our troops to be removed immediately ... not in 16 months after the 2008 election as you now claim. While your judgement about removing our troops unilaterally in 2007 is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about your previous position.

You claim to have a record of working with Republicans while the record shows that the only bill that you sponsored with a Republican was with Chuck Lugar ... and it failed. The record shows that you vote 97% in concert with the Democrat party and that you have the most liberal voting record in the Senate. You joined Republicans only 13% of the time in your votes and those 13% were only after agreement from the Democrat party. While it is of concern that you fail to include conservatives in your actions and that you are such a liberal, the greater concern is that you distorted the truth.

In the primary debates of last February, 2008, you claimed to have talked with a "Captain" of a platoon in Afghanistan "the other day" when in fact you had a discussion in 2003 with a Lieutenant who had just been deployed to Afghanistan. You lied in that debate.

In your debates last spring, you claimed to have been a "professor of Constitutional law" when in fact you have never been a professor of Constitutional law. In this last debate, you were careful to say that you "taught a law class" and never mentioned being a "professor of Constitutional law." You lied last spring.

You and Joe Biden both claimed that John McCain voted against additional funding for our troops when the actual records show the opposite. You distorted the truth.

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted against funding for alternate energy sources 20 times when the record shows that John McCain specifically voted against funding for bio fuels, especially corn ... and he was right .... corn is too expensive at producing ethanol, and using corn to make ethanol increased the price of corn from $2 a bushel to $6 a bushel for food. You distorted the truth.

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted like both of you for a tax increase on those making as little as $42,000 per year while the voting record clearly shows that John McCain did not vote as you and Joe Biden. You lied to America.

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time when you know that Democrats also vote 90% of the time with the President (including Joe Biden) because the vast majority of the votes are procedural. You are one of the few who has not voted 90% of the time with the president because you have been missing from the Senate since the day you got elected. While your absence from your job in the Senate is of concern, the greater concern is that you spin the facts.

You did not take an active roll in the rescue plan. You claimed that the Senate did not need you while the real reason that you abstained was because of your close relationships with the executives of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide, and Acorn ... who all helped cause the financial problems of today ... and they all made major contributions to your campaign. While your relationship with these executives and your protection of them for your brief 3 years in the Senate (along with Barney Frank, Chuch Schumer, Maxine Waters, and Chris Dodd) is of concern, the greater concern is that you are being deceitful.

You forgot to mention that you personally represented Tony Rezko and Acorn. Tony Rezko, an Arab and close friend to you, was convicted of fraud in Chicago real estate transactions that bilked millions of tax dollars from the Illinois government for renovation projects that you sponsored as a state senator ... and Acorn has been convicted of voter fraud, real estate sub prime loan intimidation, and illegal campaign contributions. Tony Rezko has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to your political campaigns. You personally used your political positions to steer money to both Tony Rezko and Acorn and you used Acorn to register thousands of phony voters for Democrats and you. While your relationships with Rezko and Acorn are of concern, the greater concern is that you omitted important facts about your relationships with them to America.

During your campaign, you said: "typical white person." "they cling to their guns and religion." "they will say that I am black." You played the race card. You tried to label any criticism about you as racist. You divide America.

You claim that you will reduce taxes for 95% of America, but you forgot to tell America that those reductions are after you remove the Bush tax reductions. You have requested close to $1 Billion in earmarks and several million for Acorn. Your social programs will cost America $1 Trillion per year and you claim that a reduction in military spending ($100 billion for Iraq) can pay for it. While your economic plan of adding 30% to the size of our federal government is of concern, the greater concern is that you are deceiving America.

The drain to America's economy by foreign supplied oil is $700 Billion per year (5% of GDP) while the war in Iraq is $100 Billion (less than 1% of GDP). You voted against any increases to oil exploration for the last 3 years and any expansion of nuclear facilities. Yet today, you say that you have always been for more oil and more nuclear. You are lying to America.

Mr. Obama, you claimed that you "changed" your mind about public financing for your campaign because of the money spent by Republican PACs in 2004. The truth is that the Democrat PACs in 2004, 2006, and 2008 spent twice as much as the Republican PACs (especially George Soros and MoveOn.org). You are lying to America.

Oh Mr. Obama, Teddy Roosevelt said about a hundred years ago that we Americans should first look at the character of our leaders before anything else.


Your character looks horrible. While you make good speeches, motivating speeches, your character does not match your rhetoric. You talk the talk but do not walk the walk.


1. You lied to America. You lied many times. You distorted facts. You parsed your answers like a lawyer.


2. You distorted the record of John McCain in your words and in your advertisements.


3. You had associations with some very bad people for your personal political gains and then lied about those associations.


4. You divide America about race and about class.


Now let me compare your record of lies, distortions, race bating, and associations to John McCain: War hero. Annapolis graduate with "Country first." Operational leadership experience like all 43 previously elected presidents of the USA as a Navy Officer for 22 years. 26 years in the Senate. Straight talk. Maverick. 54% of the time participated on bills with Democrats. Never asked for an earmark. The only blemish on his record is his part in the Keating 5 debacle about 25 years ago.


Mr. Obama, at Harvard Law School, you learned that the end does not justify the means. You learned that perjury, false witness, dishonesty, distortion of truth are never tolerated. Yet, your dishonesty is overwhelming. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty that caused the impeachment and disbarment of Bill Clinton. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty of Scooter Libby. You should be ashamed.

Mr. Obama, it is time for us Americans to put aside our differences on political issues and vote against you because of your dishonest character. It is time for all of us Americans to put aside our political issues and vote for America first. It is time for America to vote for honesty.

Any people who vote for you after understanding that you are dishonest should be ashamed of themselves for making their personal political issues more important than character. Would these same people vote for the anti-Christ if the anti-Christ promised them riches? Would they make a golden calf while Moses was up the mountain? Would they hire someone for a job if that someone lied in an interview? .... of course not. So why do some of these people justify their votes for you even though they know you are dishonest? Why do they excuse your dishonesty? because some of these people are frightened about the future, the economy, and their financial security .... and you are praying on their fears with empty promises ... and because some (especially our young people) are consumed by your wonderful style and promises for "change" like the Germans who voted for Adolf Hitler in 1932. The greed/envy by Germans in 1932 kept them from recognizing Hitler for who he was. They loved his style. Greed and envy are keeping many Americans from recognizing you ... your style has camouflaged your dishonesty .... but many of us see you for who you really are ... and we will not stop exposing who you are every day, forever if it is necessary.

Mr. Obama, you are dishonest. Anyone who votes for you is enabling dishonesty.


Mr. Obama, America cannot trust that you will put America first in your decisions about the future.


Mr. Obama, you are not the "change" that America deserves. We cannot trust you.


Mr. Obama, You are not ready and not fit to be commander in chief.


Mr. Obama, John McCain does not have as much money as your campaign to refute all of your false statements. And for whatever reasons, the mainstream media will not give adequate coverage or research about your lies, distortions, word parsing, bad associations, race bating, lack of operational leadership experience, and general dishonest character. The media is diverting our attention to your relationships and ignoring the fact that you lied about those relationships. The fact that you lied is much more important than the relationships themselves your relationships and bad judgements are bad on their own .... but your lies are even worse.


Therefore, by copy of this memo, all who read this memo are asked to send it to everyone else in America before it is too late . We need to do the job that the media will not do. We need to expose your dishonesty so that every person in America understands who you really are before election day.


Mr. Obama, in a democracy, we get what we deserve. And God help America if we deserve you.











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Jehan Gordon - Political Candidate - 2nd Edition

If you are just tuning in to my site refer to my blog of 9/28. The JSEB did print my letter to the Editor but left out half of the story. Read more of the lies of this Democrat "political" candidate by reviewing my blog.

In a recent mailer, Gordon showed a "Hugh Hefner" type of house by inference to Joan Krupa being very rich and planning to get richer off the poor people.

This candidate is appears to be an unrepentant lair. Just what we need to support our current governor in Springfield.

Good grief. Who is running Gordon's campaign allowing such lies to be put in print and mailed?

Who is Iran? Who is Obama?

Before Obama or anyone else sits down for a "fireside chat" with the Iranian president, Carl Goldberg from Tempe, Az. (I once had a business in Tempe) reminds us "that the name of the country is not Iran but the 'Islamic Republic of Iran'. There is a world of difference between the two. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an Islamic theocracy being run not a a normal nation state with normal nation-state interests, but as an Islamic state whose purpose is to further the cause of Islam and jihad.

The ayatollahs who rule the Islamic Republic of Iran are thoroughly imbued with the ideology of Islam, not with nation-state realpolotik. Our approach to them and to the imminent prospects of their attaining nuclear weapons must be based on the understanding that we are dealing with religious extremists, not with statesmen.

Misunderstanding the nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran could be fatal".

Do we believe that Obama is naive enough not to know this? Then we must believe his 20 year relationship with Reverend Wright, Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers and the terribly corrupt and left wing Democrat organization ACORN registering an entire football team and a seven year old girl as legitimate voters was just an ordinary occurrence of meeting and working with people.

We have been warned by the "fair and balanced" media that we do not really know who this charismatic demagogue REALLY is.

Journal Star's "Our View"

In our liberal local newspaper's continual attacks on John McCain, today's "Our View" needs further analysis. The JS Editorial Board said "GOP rhetoric at odds with
Reagan's legacy". They quote Reagan as saying in 1983, nearing a decision on American sanctions, the Soviet Union must account for 'the murder of innocent civilians' aboard Korean Air Line flight 007. Nonetheless, he said the 'inexcusable act of brutality' would not interfere with ARMS REDUCTION TALKS WITH MOSCOW." (My caps)

The ex-president said he would meet with Moscow on "arms reduction" talks.

The JSEB, now down from 5 to 3 editors, slammed the Republican position that they would not meet with with the Iran president for a "fireside chat" and touted Barack Obama who said he would meet with the Iranian president "without preconditions".

The JSEB, as it so often does, attempted to confuse the issue. The issue stated in the JSEB's own words is that Reagen would continue his talks with Moscow about "arms reduction".

600 or more words later, the JSEB asks, "If "personal diplomacy" was good enough for the Gipper, why is it wrong for Obama?

The answer is so simple I'm embarrassed to print it. Reagen was in the midst of ongoing talks with Russia about arms control. Obama was and is of the mindset of disgraced Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain before the start of WWII that eventually killed over 40 million people. Obama wants to sit down and "talk" with a man who would like to be another Hitler.

McCain and most Republican leadership are saying sure, we'll talk with Iran after they agree to stop building nuclear bombs and threatening to remove "Israel from the face of the earth", stop shipping deadly arms to the militant Shites and the terrorist Al Queda and then and only then, will open up the door to attempt to reach further understandings between our countries and the rest of the MidEast leaders.

Good grief!

GateHouse Media Stock

GateHouse Media, parent company of the local Journal Star, share prices closed at $.20 a share on a volume of 7.79 million today. GHS averages 315,000 share a day.

Look for more cost cutting at the JS and some possible bad news from the NYSE where GHS is currently listed. Monday, Christine Smith, Deputy Opinion Editor was still listed as an employee. Today, her name is not listed and we learn she has taken a new position locally.

She seemed like a fair-minded person and I wish her well in her new position.

Victims and Perpetrators - Many to Blame so Now What?

Most Democrats are placing the blame for the financial crisis on the Republicans, capitalism and the lenders. Where is the blame for those folks who borrowed on their first home to buy a second, or just went out and bought a luxury car they didn't need? Or spent their monthly home payments while shopping hoping the credit card bill would be lower than they knew it was going to be?? Did we really spend that much? The problem is as usual, pass the blame to someone else. Clearly there are individuals who signed up for loans they knew they couldn't afford. And paid no attention at home or in school (schools seldom teach personal finance let alone, responsibility) about an individuals responsibility of paying back in a timely fashion everything they borrow, plus interest if not paid on time.

And, yes, Fannie and Freddie with Barney's and Christopher blessing, did make these loans, maybe indirectly and farmed out the dirty work of actually doing the paperwork to banks and mortgage bankers. Fannie and Freddy are the Democrats babies created under the guise of equalization for the "underclass".

Plenty of blame to go around but blame is seldom equal. Now what will all these "talented" politicians and Finance MBA's do to get this country out of this regularly occurring recession, albeit, this one is worse than in most peoples recollection. Not mine, I was a depression kid whose Dad and Mom paid back every dime lent them.

Ultimately, the responsibility to pay back borrowed money is the obligation of the borrower.

Too many people watching MTV. What's new?

Multicultural Foolishness

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal provides an inspiring example of a child of Hindu immigration who embraced traditional Americanism to be a "Good Ol' Boy" and ultimately, a wildly popular leader across all ethnic lines. He took the name "Bobby" from a boy from TV's "The Brady Bunch" and converted to Catholicism in high school. This led Debra Solomon of New York Times Magazine to pose a profoundly OBNOXIOUS question: "If the Republican Party bills itself as the party of family values, what should we make of the fact that you (Jindal) rejected the name your parents gave you, their political affiliation and their religion"?

Solomon ignores the importance of the larger American family, with distinctive traditions that newcomers should enthusiastically adopt. Nation fragmentation stems not from immigration, but from multicultural foolishness that undermines the assimilation process.

Michael Medved writing at Townhall.com

I totally agree. How about a ticket in 2012 Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal?

Merle

Raise/Cut Taxes for the Rich/Poor?

Whose figures, McCain's or Obama's do you believe? It depends on how deep you examine what they are saying. If you believe the one-sided view presented in today's liberal Parade magazine you would believe Obama is the saviour of the poor and lower middle taxpayer. McCain would mostly cut taxes for the rich while Obama would cut taxes for the poor and middle class.

Let's look deeper. The top fifth of earners currently pay 67% of all federal taxes-not just income taxes, but payroll taxes, corporate taxes and death taxes. The top 1%of earners pay 26% of all federal taxes.

If the McCain proposal were passed, the top 5th would actually pay a greater share of the total of federal taxes and the top 1%'s share would decline by only 0.3%. High earners, despite what the media portrays would continue to carry the vast majority of federal taxes under McCain's plan.

Would any plan improve economic efficiency? Only if the plans reduce marginal tax rates--the amount of additional taxes paid for each additional dollar earned--which determine incentives to work, save and create jobs, facts that most media do not tell the average person.

The McCain plan would maintain current income tax rates and lower corporate taxes to help American businesses who ultimately provide American jobs and pay American wages and slow down outsourcing.

Obama's plan would increase marginal income tax rates on high earners and raise taxes on capital gains and dividends, the the effect of shrinking labor supply, reducing rewards for savings and increasing incentives to avoid taxes. All but the very lowest income Americans (many who do not pay income tax at all) would face higher marginal tax rates under the Obama plan.

Obama's recent television propaganda saying that $250,000 and below earners would pay no additional tax is an one third-truth, if not an outright lie.

We need to focus on the on the end product. How the presidential candidates' plans would change the tax code matters far less than where the tax code would stand when those changes are accomplished.

McCain's plan would also abolish the AMT currently slated to tax American people a trillion dollars in the next few years. Abolishing the AMT would save middle-class families an average of $2700 per year.

Obama plan by contrast would increase taxes on savers, investors, small business, employers, and other job creators and add more regulatory burdens.

Obama says he will restore economic growth. His plans would do the opposite.

More detail than my blog and research permits can be found by googling Jack Kemp, Peter Ferrara, Andrew W. Biggs and Kent Smetters, all very knowledgeable on tax and growth or tax and restraint of growth.

Democrats and Liberal Medias' Seek Perfection?

Why is it "these people" seem always to be seeking perfection in all others but their own?

Good question and one worthy of some pondering.

Rep. Barney Frank

Rep. Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services, blames racist Republicans for the credit panic. Frank says, "let's be honest: (why do politicians keep saying "let's be honest"? Is it because they aren't honest, so they can remind us of a fact we already know?) "The fact that some poor people are black doesn't hurt them either from their standpoint."

Black people aren't at the root of this mess. This mess is, largely in part, the relaxing of lending standards so as to make it easy for poor and minority borrowers to get mortgages. This in turn created incentives for banks to make bad loans, many of which were "bundled up" and sold with the good loans and which the leading buyer was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

There is nothing wrong with lending to poor and minorities. However. these borrower, like in Australia, must have the means to PAY BACK THESE LOANS AS THEY COME DUE AND PAY BACK IN A TIMELY FASHION.

No one in the private sector except the greedy and badly managed few make such foolish loans.

Everyone who was involved in the "pyramid scheme" is desperately trying to separate the good credit from the fair, from the bad, and the very bad. In the meantime we must trust our government and men like Frank and Dodd to save the ones that have value and should be saved?

Good luck to the country but, hey, we voted these people into office.

It is no secret that Barney Frank had a live-in relationships with one of the male executives of one of these lending entities.

Sad, but interesting.

MBA Graduates

John Tait from Lewistown, Idaho poses a good question. Universities are always touting their successes in graduating numbers of MBA's. How about publicly naming the universities that turned out the management teams of AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Countrywide and their not yet indicted founder, WaMu, Wachovia, GM, Ford, and Chrysler to name a few not including Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing and Aldelphia?

Good question.

Russian Proverb

With upcomng national elections, this proverb seems appropriate to post. "If you feed the bear, he wll eat you last."